Books
Primary Media Education: a Curriculum Statement BFI 1989 – editor
Teaching English in the National Curriculum: Media Education Hodder and Stoughton 1991
New Directions: Media Education Worldwide/L’Education aux médias dans le monde: nouvelles orientations BFI/CLEMI/UNESCO 1992 – editor with Evelyne Bevort and Josiane Savino
Report of the Commission of Inquiry into English BFI 1994 – editor
In Front of the Children: children’s audio-visual culture BFI 1995 – editor with David Buckingham
Making Movies Matter: Report of the Film Education Working Group BFI 1999 – editor and co-author*
Moving Images in the Classroom: a guide for secondary teachers using film and television BFI 2000 – editor and co-author*
Look Again! A Teaching Guide to using film and television with three- to-eleven-year-olds BFI/DfES 2003 – editor and co-author
Teaching Media in Primary Schools Sage 2010 – editor
How Toddlers Learn the Secret Language of Movies Palgrave 2022 (forthcoming)
Book Chapters
‘They Changed the Picture in the Middle of the Fight: New Kinds of Literacy’ in Language and Literacy in the Primary School, eds Margaret Meek and Colin Mills, Falmer Press 1988
‘An Agenda for the Second Phase of Media Literacy Development’ in Kubey, R. (ed) Media Literacy in the Information Age, (Information and Behavior, col. 6). New Brunswick, Transaction Press, 1997.
‘Why Media Studies Matters’ in Formations D. Fleming (ed), Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2001.
‘Rethinking Toddlers and TV’ in T. Langan and F. Taffinder (eds) Children’s Media Yearbook 2017. London: The Children’s Media Foundation
‘Early Encounters with Narrative: two-year-olds and moving-image media’ in Green, L., Holloway, D., Stevenson, K., Leaver, T. (eds) (2022) The Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Children
‘How Children Learn to Read Movies’ in N. Brown (ed), Oxford Handbook of Children’s Film (OUP 2022)
‘Toddlers and Movies: A Fresh Approach’ in A. L-V. Azcárate (ed) Mind and Matter: Challenges and Opportunities in Cognitive Semiotics and Aesthetics. London: IntechOpen (2021)
Teaching Packs
Reading Pictures BFI 1981
Selling Pictures BFI 1983 – editor
Starters: Teaching TV Title Sequences BFI 1983 – editor
Picture Stories: starting points for media education in the Primary School BFI 1986 – editor
Criminal Records: teaching TV crime series BFI 1988 – editor
Media Education: An Introduction (teacher training pack) BFI/OU – editor
Screening Middlemarch BBC/BFI 1994 – with Christine James
Switch On! Ofcom 2010 – with Marion Janner
Animagine Film and Video Workshop/BFI 2011 – with Simon Oatley
Journal Articles
‘The Myth of Transparency’ Screen Education 10/11 (Spring/summer 1974)
‘You saw all the Sweat: Analysis of Classroom Discussion Through Tape Transcript’ Screen Education 15 (Summer 1975) – with Danny Padmore and Neil Galbraith
‘Regan and Carter, Kojak and Crocker, Batman and Robin?’ Screen Education 20 (Autumn 1976)
‘Real Entertainment: The Iranian Embassy Siege’ Screen Education 37 (Winter 1980/1) – with Richard Paterson
‘Teaching Power’ The English Magazine 1983
‘Teaching the Television Generation’ The Listener 17th Jan 1985
‘Making Sense for Whom?’ (review) Screen vol 27 no 5 (October 1986)
‘The Politics of Media Education’ – paper presented to BFI Easter School, 1989; reprinted in Alvarado and Boyd-Barrett, eds, Media Education: An Introduction (BFI/OU 1992)
‘What Would Lord Reith Have Said?’ Spectrum no 9, Spring 1993
‘From Cultural Cleansing to a Common Curriculum’ English and Media Magazine Summer 1993
‘Teaching for Tomorrow’ Public Policy Review October 1993 (with Giselle Dye)
‘La Enseñanza de los Medios de Comunicación en la Enseñanza Primaria y Secundaria’ in La Revolución de los Medios Audiovisuales, ed. Roberto Aparici, Madrid, Ediciones de la Torre,1993
‘L’Education aux Médias dans le Débat sur les Programmes Scolaires en Angleterre’ in ‘Education et Médias’, Mediaspouvoirs no 35, 3eme timestre 1994
‘Screening Middlemarch: the Pack of the Film of the Book’ English and Media Magazine, Autumn 1994 (with Christine James).
‘Media Education in the UK’ in Revista Comunicar, vol XV, no 28, March 2007
‘Teacher Training for Media Education in the UK’ in Medienimpulse, no 59, March 2007
‘Media Education: International Strategies’
‘Transforming Literacy’
– both in in Empowerment through Media Education eds Ulla Carlsson, Samy Tayie, Genevieve Jacquinot-Delaunay and Jose Manuel Perez Tornero, The International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media, 2008
‘Towards a Manifesto for Media Education: The Entitlement Project’ (Spring 2011) at http://www.manifestoformediaeducation.co.uk/2011/01/media-education-should-be/
‘The Role of Emotion in Early Movie-watching’ in Media Education Journal, 60, Winter 2016-17
‘Literacy, Media and Multimodality: A Critical Response’ Literacy 47 (2) July 2013 (with David Buckingham)
‘Researching Prior learning: How Toddlers Study Movies’ Film Education Journal 1 (Summer 2018)
‘Embodied movie-watching: Two-year-olds and big warm silky screens’ Media Education Research Journal 8,2 (2019): Themed Issue: Media learning and Engagement in Early Childhood
‘Even a Two-year-old can do it! The early stages of learning to understand moving-image media’ Sign Systems Studies 48 (1) Summer 2020.
‘An Agenda for the Second Phase of Media Literacy Development’ in Media Literacy in the Information Age, (Information and Behavior, vol. 6) ed. Robert Kubey, New Brunswick, Transaction Press, 1997
‘Why Media Studies Matters’ in Formations ed. Dan Fleming, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2001
‘The Development of Media Education in England: A Personal View’ in Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts, vol ii, eds James Flood, Shirley Brice Heath and Diane Lapp, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007
‘Rethinking Toddlers and TV’ in T. Langan and F. Taffinder (eds) Children’s Media Yearbook 2017. London: The Children’s Media Foundation
‘Early Encounters with Narrative: two-year-olds and moving-image media’ in Green, L., Holloway, D., Stevenson, K., Leaver, T. (eds) (2022) The Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Children
‘How Children Learn to Read Movies’ in N. Brown (ed), Oxford Handbook of Children’s Film (OUP 2022)